Plan­ning ren­o­va­tions or im­prove­ments but not sure where to start? Get an En­erGuide home eval­u­a­tion and take the guess­work out of which im­prove­ments can save you most on en­ergy bills. This can be your first step to­wards a more en­ergy ef­fi­cient-home. An en­ergy-ef­fi­cient home is: Less ex­pen­sive to op­er­ate; More com­fort­able to live in; More en­vi­ron­men­tally friendly.

It is im­por­tant to un­der­stand that a house op­er­ates as a sys­tem. Be­sides oc­cu­pant ac­tiv­i­ties and the ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­ment (e.g. tem­per­a­ture, wind, rain, air qual­ity and noise) the el­e­ments of a house such as in­su­la­tion lev­els, air­tight­ness, win­dow and door types, ven­ti­la­tion rates, heat­ing and cool­ing sys­tems all af­fect each other and this com­bi­na­tion af­fects the over­all house per­for­mance. For ex­am­ple, even if you are in­vest­ing in new heat­ing and cool­ing equip­ment or new win­dows and doors, you can­not op­ti­mize the en­ergy per­for­mance of your house if you are not keep­ing heat in dur­ing the win­ter and out dur­ing sum­mer. This sim­ple home im­prove­ment some­times pays for it­self in less than a year and con­tin­ues to pay back for the life of the house.